Shenandoah Weiss

Job Title: 
Project Manager, Research and Education Programs
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Bio: 

Shenandoah Weiss is part of the ISKME research and education teams, helping to manage the scope, coordination and evaluation of ISKME projects. She is passionate about cross discipline collaborations, and is particularly interested in improving ways to measure student learning and project impact. Shenandoah received her Master’s degree in Social Science from the University of Chicago and has spent her career focused on understanding and interpreting the learning that happens in formal and informal learning spaces. She has over a decade of experience coordinating programming, outreach, and evaluations for nonprofit, museum and government institutions including the City of Chicago Office of the Mayor, University of Chicago Center for the Presentation of Science, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, as well as a number of Bay Area organizations including Stanford Jazz Workshop, KIPP Bay Area Schools, San Francisco Film Society and KQED.

What are the biggest opportunities for change in education?: 

• Creating alternatives for credentialing learning • Implementing new systems of measuring student learning • Empowering teachers to be creative facilitators of learning in the classroom

What does collaboration mean to you?: 

• Contributing ideas in the spirit of being open to questions and feedback • Deep listening skills put into action • Generatating quality ideas that are bigger than any one individual could have imagined

What's your most memorable ISKME moment?: 

My most memorable ISKME moment that truly demonstrates what it means to be an ISKME-ite was participating in improvisation exercises during my first team meeting. We built a machine out of our bodies as an entry point for discussing constructive collaboration in action.

Gives talks on: 

• OER's impact on teaching and learning • Siyavula • Community College Open Textbook Project (CCOT) • Cyberlearning in Community Colleges (C3) • Measuring student learning

Contact
Email: 
shen@iskme.org
Skype: 
shenandoah.weiss
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